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Electric Car Watch #11: Hyundai's Electric Car Plans for India

Plug In India

Launching an imported CKD kit in India was never a long term solution. ​ Ultimately, Hyundai can’t treat India like a 3rd world car market and keep dumping pollution cars on it this decade. This includes 14,243 Pure Battery Electric Cars, 4,451 Plugin Hybrids, and 1010 Fuel Cell cars.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. Reuters ).

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